Lengthy post coming up! Has my first observation at the weekend. Was incredibly nervous as it was my first game at county level and didn’t feel my fitness was the best it could be due to my late start into pre season (didn’t have a productive lockdown!)
first 10/15 I was doing well but could feel myself over compensating with movement and sprints as the game was noticeably quicker to that of what I’m used to however, I managed to adapt to this and got into the spring of things.
i felt I was having a good game but I had seemingly come against 2 sides who disagreed, but 2 first half sin buns quickly sorted that with a further 2 standard bookings in the second Half.
anyway, there’s a point I’m getting to with this. I continuously felt I was doing well but all I could hear was grumbles from all fans, both bench’s and both sets of players. I couldn’t keep anyone happy. Not enough for dissent, but it was clear enough. After the game, manager of away team came up to me and starting moaning about my decisions and arrogance to give them. First time, I explained them, second time I asked him to leave, third I went with the red card. Went back to the changing room and could hear both sets of teams complaining about me, saying they can’t believe I’m at this level and my observer must be laughing at that performance.I felt absolutely demoralised and was dreading the report. I went out for the debrief and the first words out of the observers mouth, ‘that was excellent, I’ve got next to no negatives to say about that’. I asked about his opinions on teams and his response ‘you’d struggle to find 2 more sides gobbing off like that with your performance’. Cue Confidence going sky high! I’m yet to receive the official report but I’m genuinely excited to read it. I’ve missed refereeing!
This post was sort of in response to a thread which was posted recently which I couldn’t find with somebody worrying about player reaction but morale of the story, stick to your guns, Do what you do best and Just simply concentrate. There’s only one person on the day you need to impress and they are likely to be the only person who knows what they are talking about!
first 10/15 I was doing well but could feel myself over compensating with movement and sprints as the game was noticeably quicker to that of what I’m used to however, I managed to adapt to this and got into the spring of things.
i felt I was having a good game but I had seemingly come against 2 sides who disagreed, but 2 first half sin buns quickly sorted that with a further 2 standard bookings in the second Half.
anyway, there’s a point I’m getting to with this. I continuously felt I was doing well but all I could hear was grumbles from all fans, both bench’s and both sets of players. I couldn’t keep anyone happy. Not enough for dissent, but it was clear enough. After the game, manager of away team came up to me and starting moaning about my decisions and arrogance to give them. First time, I explained them, second time I asked him to leave, third I went with the red card. Went back to the changing room and could hear both sets of teams complaining about me, saying they can’t believe I’m at this level and my observer must be laughing at that performance.I felt absolutely demoralised and was dreading the report. I went out for the debrief and the first words out of the observers mouth, ‘that was excellent, I’ve got next to no negatives to say about that’. I asked about his opinions on teams and his response ‘you’d struggle to find 2 more sides gobbing off like that with your performance’. Cue Confidence going sky high! I’m yet to receive the official report but I’m genuinely excited to read it. I’ve missed refereeing!
This post was sort of in response to a thread which was posted recently which I couldn’t find with somebody worrying about player reaction but morale of the story, stick to your guns, Do what you do best and Just simply concentrate. There’s only one person on the day you need to impress and they are likely to be the only person who knows what they are talking about!
